With the city of Port Said proclaiming its
nominal independence, protesters demanded the resignation of Mr. Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president, while people across the country appeared convinced that taking to the streets in protests was the only means to get redress for their grievances.

“Political, economic, social and security challenges” require united action “by all parties” to avoid “
dire consequences that affect the steadiness and stability of the homeland,” General Sisi said in an address to military cadets that was later relayed as a public statement from his spokesman.

Coming just months after the military relinquished the power it seized at the ouster of Mr. Mubarak, General Sisi’s
rebuke to the civilian leaders inevitably raised the possibility that the generals might once again step into civilian politics.

The Brooklyn shopkeeper was already home for the night when her phone rang: a man who said he was from a neighborhood “modesty committee” was concerned that the mannequins in her store’s window, used to display women’s clothing, might
inadvertently arouse passing men and boys.

The Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, who prosecuted the Weberman case, has now received allegations that members of a modesty committee forced their way into a home in the borough,
confiscating an iPad and computer equipment deemed inappropriate for Orthodox children, officials say.

The Central Rabbinical Congress of the United States and Canada, in addition to certifying foods as kosher and
adjudicating matrimonial and commercial disputes, does at times remind the Satmar community of the community’s modesty rules.

Though no modesty committee was overtly involved, there has been anger over ultra-Orthodox
zealots who spit on and insulted an 8-year-old girl for walking to school through their neighborhood in a dress they considered immodest.